Problems with 3.9.1

I am running Photocrati for my website in WP 3.9.1. It worked fine in 3.8 but now it is just a slug of a site…moving at the speed of a snail. I have deactivated all plug-ins and reinstalled one by one, clearing the cache after each. But not luck. I then went and did a manual reload of 3.9.1 and get the following error messages. I do not know if this is the cause of the problem, nor do I know what to do next. Any help would be appreciated:

messages upon loading:

downloading update from https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/release/wordpress-3.9.1-no-content.zip…

Unpacking the update…

Verifying the unpacked files…

Preparing to install the latest version…

Warning: An unexpected error occurred. Something may be wrong with www.ads-software.com or this server’s configuration. If you continue to have problems, please try the support forums. (WordPress could not establish a secure connection to www.ads-software.com. Please contact your server administrator.) in /home/lyndagof/public_html/wp-admin/includes/update.php on line 117
Enabling Maintenance mode…

Copying the required files…

Disabling Maintenance mode…

Upgrading database…

Warning: An unexpected error occurred. Something may be wrong with www.ads-software.com or this server’s configuration. If you continue to have problems, please try the support forums. (WordPress could not establish a secure connection to www.ads-software.com. Please contact your server administrator.) in /home/lyndagof/public_html/wp-includes/update.php on line 119

Warning: An unexpected error occurred. Something may be wrong with www.ads-software.com or this server’s configuration. If you continue to have problems, please try the support forums. (WordPress could not establish a secure connection to www.ads-software.com. Please contact your server administrator.) in /home/lyndagof/public_html/wp-includes/update.php on line 287

Warning: An unexpected error occurred. Something may be wrong with www.ads-software.com or this server’s configuration. If you continue to have problems, please try the support forums. (WordPress could not establish a secure connection to www.ads-software.com. Please contact your server administrator.) in /home/lyndagof/public_html/wp-includes/update.php on line 435

Warning: An unexpected error occurred. Something may be wrong with www.ads-software.com or this server’s configuration. If you continue to have problems, please try the support forums. (WordPress could not establish a secure connection to www.ads-software.com. Please contact your server administrator.) in /home/lyndagof/public_html/wp-includes/update.php on line 119
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